Ducks, Newburyport
Lucy Ellmann
Top 10 Best Quotes
“the fact that you’ll never know what sort of person you might have been if you’d read different stuff”
“the fact that we all go on pretending things are fine, hoping everything’s a-okay, even though everything is nowhere near okay and we all know it, no matter how many candlelit vigils you hold”
“the fact that two whole jars of bay leaves is really like a lifetime’s supply, the fact that I wonder if every household has too many bay leaves, the fact that the number of bay leaves you own can easily get out of hand,”
“he fact that there seems to be no problem in America that can’t be solved by murdering your whole family or your boss or a whole crowd of strangers, and maybe yourself”
“the fact that there are times, maybe the most unlikely times, that you realize you're simply thrilled to be alive, and what a great piece of luck it is just to be a part of things, to have a body, so you can feel and see and walk the earth, for just a little while”
“the fact that it’s unbelievable but every single thing alive has its own center of being, and looks out on the world from that point of view, even a worm, or a jellyfish, hamsters, owls, the fact that even a leaf has feelings, the fact that you know the leaves are enjoying this warm sun going right through them,”
“...the fact that there’s a lot you have to blank out if you want to get through life...”
“the fact that nothing you do seems innocent anymore”
“the fact that I'd happily do just about anything for people, anything, even spend time with them, if they'd just stop hurting my feelings”
“their phones actually, trying to get inside them somehow,”
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Book Keywords:
reading, shootings, unrest, fear, problems, life, trauma, suicide, anxiety, survival, cultural-influences, selective-memory, ignorance, social-issues, books, homicide
